Sucks that these parents couldn't just use the internet, or that they are such mooseknuckles that named their kids Ethan and Asher or that their last names are both their parents names hyphenated. You can find a lot out on the internet. For example, anyone can email the AD that fired him at m­arkb­erkowitzspn­otsewo­r­g. You can also find out that these parents paid $565,000 for their house and were sued by MasterCard in 2010. Hope they didn't write that PI a check!

rkane1:When that kid makes it to the adult world he will be mushed into a pulp...or pulped into mush...but definitely one or the other.

Doubtful. With parents like that, that kid won't make it to "the real world." He'll instead make it to a sandbox, carefully walled in by contacts, palm greasing, and intimidation, cushioned until he, himself, becomes a douche with a small child. He will then perpetuate the practice for his kid, because that's how you're supposed to do it (as far as he knows.) If & when he makes it to "the real world", he will then manufacture a disaster that he can't escape through money, bullying, bluster, or connections - he will become confused, demoralized, and withdrawn, a shame to his entire family line.

HotWingAgenda:doglover: In ancient Athens, someone could potentially be voted into exile for a decade once a year. If they got 6000 votes against them from the people of Athens, away they were sent.

I vote we bring back the practice. If the community doesn't like you, away you go.

Wouldn't that just split America in half? The reasonable half and the crazy half would each vote the other out, and we'd just have Civil War II. And then the Canuckistanis would descend on the resulting power vacuum.

Apart from the mass slaughter, famine, disease, and other suffering inherent in a civil war, I'm not seeing the downside.